Points adjustment, and points alter promptly. Frequently for the better; often for the even worse. MLB's Winter Conferences are a thing that altered. Review my Monday morning article on the begin of the meetings, and you could have expected a couple of billion bucks to have been devoted to players today, and for the San Francisco Giants to have already changed their lineup. Rather, the biggest Monday information appears to be that Erick Fedde has a mystery group supplying him greater than $5 million each year. This quietness can be found in addition to or, extra properly, as a result of rumors/reports/speculation that the 2 biggest free agents, Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, are now anticipated to authorize at some time after the conferences end on Wednesday. With couple of dominos anticipated to drop up until at the very least Ohtani and perhaps Yamamoto choose homes, the stage is set for a remarkably silent few days. Another example of a point that has transformed: the Giants quotes pertaining to money. We're about a month got rid of from chairman Greg Johnson publicly teaching a wish to "somewhat recover cost." My position is that Johnson's ill-fated quote was much more an indication of why he shouldn't be the media-facing head of the Giants than that he shouldn't be running the team; yet even so, there's no denying the optics of Johnson's quote. However points do, without a doubt, modification. And on Monday, we were treated to a much better quote about the retail therapy habits of the multi-billion-dollar enterprise whose financial financial investments we have actually made emotional investments in. While signing up with the MLB Network crew, Giants Head of state of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi provided a sentence that was a joy to listen to, also if it will be really controversial to the Boston Red Sox: "Pay-roll versatility does not win video games."As the kids state, don't just discuss it be concerning it. Which, in fairness, the Giants have tried to do recently. And it sure seems like they're attempting also harder this year. That's exactly how we wound up with a report concerning Yamamoto from the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser that Bobby Dalbec Jersey, "executives from 2 groups who have actually had passion in him told the Chronicle on Sunday they think the Giants have the edge." It's how the Giants have actually planted themselves strongly in the profession discussions for Juan Soto, in spite of him being a Scott Boras rental whose final year of mediation will likely overshadow the annual worth of every non-Ohtani agreement authorized this winter. But no fish is bigger than Ohtani. Therefore there's no higher sign of the Giants intention to change pay-roll adaptability with entertaining success than news that they continue to be in the competing the best free agent in modern baseball background, also as his rate tag apparently slips closer to $600 million than $500 million. Take this with an Arson Judge-sized grain of salt, but Jon Heyman reports that the Giants are one of six finalists for Ohtani, together with the arguably unusual Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Angels; the not-at-all unexpected Chicago Cubs; the very apparent Los Angeles Dodgers; and one of the most apparent group of all: the Enigma Group of Mysteryville. And even Ohtani, seemingly determined on going through this process with as much privacy and regarded neutrality as feasible, dropped a nugget intentionally or otherwise revealing rate of interest in the Giants.